LOUISA MULLER
STAGE DIRECTOR
Platée
Garsington Opera, 2024
New production
“Louisa Muller's production zings with energy throughout.”
The Times
“The premise of the production was unashamedly brash and bold....The dance sequences—even when involving inflatable flamingos—were more slick than silly and the musical tableaux were wittily handled....the desolation of the opera's final moments offered a reminder that dangers lie in turning people's lives into public entertainment.”
Opera
“And it is to television that director Louisa Muller turns in her new production, the vacuous nature of reality TV in particular, lifting this 18th-century tale of gods and mortals straight into the here and now with startling, breathless ingenuity.”
The Observer
“Garsington Opera's new production is so exuberantly and stylishly done I enjoyed it hugely, albeit with a tinge of guilt."
Daily Telegraph
“Garsington Opera decided to be bold with Rameau's Platée, and pulled off a huge success with this sparkling (in more ways than one), funny, engaging production by Louisa Muller.”
MusicOMH
“It's all gloriously licentious...there's never a dull moment."
Independent
Sets/Costumes: Christopher Oram
Lights: Malcolm Rippeth
Movement: Rebecca Howell
Video: Illuminos
Conductor: Paul Agnew
The English Concert
Satyr/Citheron: Henry Waddington
Thespis/Mercury: Robert Murray
Maenads: Audrey Tsang, Nancy Holt
Thalie: Holly Brown
Momus: Jonathan McGovern
Amor: Victoria Songwei Li
Platée: Samuel Boden
Clarine: Holly Teague
Jupiter: Ossian Huskinson
La Folie: Mireille Asselin
Juno: Annabel Kennedy
Photos by Clive Barda and Julian Guidera